Unix installation instructions

Binary packages

Spek is not yet packaged on many distributions, help in this area will be greatly appreciated.

• Arch Linux: spek and spek-git
• Debian: spek
• Fedora: unreviewed RPMFusion package
• FreeBSD: audio/spek
• Gentoo: media-sound/spek
• Ubuntu: spek, Official PPA

Ubuntu PPA

To install Spek from the official PPA on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) or Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) run these commands:

% sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexk/spek
% sudo apt-get update
% sudo apt-get install spek

Building from the tarball

To build Spek, download the source code tarball then run these commands from terminal:

% tar -xjvf spek-0.x.tar.bz2
% cd spek-0.x
% ./configure
% make

To build you will need GTK+ and FFmpeg/libav packages. On Debian/Ubuntu you also need development packages: libgtk2.0-dev, libavcodec-dev and libavformat-dev.

To start Spek, run:

% src/spek

Or install it with:

% sudo make install

Building from the git repository

% git clone git://github.com/alexkay/spek.git
% cd spek
% ./autogen.sh
% make

In addition to the packages listed above, you will need autotools and the Vala compiler (normally packaged as valac).